Account-book holder.



PATENTED SEPT. 29, 1903.

A. J; SHAUL. ACCOUNT BOOK HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

A TTORNE YS.

" 1 NITED, STATES Patented September 29, 1903.

ALBERT J. SHAUL,

OF QUIMBY, IOWA.

ACCOUNT-BOOK HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters P Application filed my .16, 1902.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT J. SHAUL, a citizen of the United'States, residing at Q-uimby, in the countyof Cherokee and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Account-Book Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My improved device is adapted for holding account and other books for containing records of more or less value and which whennot in use require to be deposited in safes or vaults. Several holders proper are assembled in groups or series and slidablyconnected in such manner that when the account-books placed therein are required for use the holders may be adjusted one on the other so as to project one aboveanother and be adapted for support in verticalposition upon a desk suitably constructed with a series of ledges or shelves of a width corresponding to that of the individual holders. Such stepwise adjustment permits the top or upper portions of the several account-books to be conveniently inspected, and the names of the severalparties with whom the accounts are kept being printed on such portions a selection of any one of the books may be instantly made.v

The several holders-of a group or series may be readjusted from such extended form or position into a compact form, so as to occupy minimumspace when placed and stored .in a safe or vault, without removal of the accountbooks.

- The details of construction, arrangement, and operation are as hereinafter described, and illustrated in accompanying drawings, in which c Figure 1 is a perspective view of a desk with a series or group of my improved accountw book holders placed in position thereon as required for use. Fig. 2 isa transverse vertical section of a portion of such desk and several of the holders placed thereon. Fig.3 is

a perspective view of one of the plates composing an individual holder. Fig. 4 is a perspeetive view of the other plate composing part of an individual holder. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of aportion of the desk and a series of holders. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of a series of holders adjusted in compact form, as required for storage.

In Fig. 3 one of the plates, A, composing one atent No. 740,321, dated September 29, 1903.

Serial No. 115.886- 'Cllo model.)

of my book-holders is shown in the form it assumes when connected with the other plate, B. (Shown in Fig. 4.) The plate A is rectangular and provided atits top edge with a downwardly and forwardly bent portion, forming a lip or flange a, and at the bottom edge with two corner-flanges a, which are similarly bent forward and upward, and withan intervening horizontal ledge (1 the bottom of an individual book-holder and serves as asupport for a book. The plate B (shown in Fig. 4) has inwardly bent side flanges b. When the two parts A B are placed togetherandconnected, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 5, b, the flange a. of plate A overlaps or hooks upon the top edge b of plate B, while the bottom flanges a of plate A similarly engage the bottom edge of plate B. The side flanges of plate B engage the side edges 0. of plate A, as will be apparent by inspection of Fig. 5. As will be apparent upondue inspection, the said flanges b are of less length than the plate A, and consequently the parts A B are adapted to slide upon each other lengthwise to the extent which thisdifierence permits. This slidable connection adapts the seriesor group of holders to be adjusted in stepwise relation, or one above another, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, where they are shown with the bottom a resting directly upon the ledges or shelves 0 of the desk 0. The account-books at, which are placed in the several individual holders, as shown in Fig. I, are ordinarily of greater length than the holders, so that the projecting portion may be inscribed with the name of the party with whom the account is kept, and the stepwise adjustment and relation of the several members of the group or series of holders permits convenient visual inspection of the corresponding group or series of account-books, so that any one may be instantly selected when required for use. The slidable connection before described between the plates A Benables the several members of a group of bolders to be adjusted as shown in full lines,Fig. 6, where the tops and bottoms are in the same plane, the holders thus assuming the most compact form and occupying the minimum space. When so adj usted,the series or group of holders are placed in a safe or vault without removing the account-books therefrom.

which in practice forms too The sloping front portion 0- of the desk 0 afiords a convenient surface or support upon which to lay and inspect any account-book removed from the holder. 7

What I claim is- 1. The improved account-book holder comprising a series of connected book-receptacles formed of a rectangular plate having top and bottom flanges and a horizontal bottom ledge, and a second plate having inwardly-bent side flanges which embrace the side edges of the first-named plate, the flanges of the latter similarly engaging the top and bottom edges of the second plate, substantially as shown and described.

2. Theimproved account-book holder comprising two rectangular plates having top,

bottom and side flanges and a bottom ledge as described, the side flanges of the one enholder, substantially as shown and described. 30

ALBERT J. SHAUL. Witnesses:

N. J. JOHNSON, ORIE PARKER. 

